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SONG (5) by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER

First Line: DAY IS DEAD
Last Line: AFTERWARDS IS LONG TO RUE.

DAY is dead, and let us sleep,
Sleep a while or sleep for aye;
'T were the best if we unknew
While to-morrow dawn'd and grew;
It may bring us time to weep:
We were glad to-day.
Joy for a little while is won,
Joy is ending while begun;
Then the setting of the sun;
Afterwards is long to rue.



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